Representative Sonny Ganaden

Hawaii State Representative, District 30

Prior to elected office, Representative Ganaden has been a lawyer, college instructor, journalist, youth mentor, and artist. As a lawyer, he has been a staff attorney at the Domestic Violence Action Center, a court-appointed attorney with the District Court, and handled civil litigation for small businesses. He has taught in the American Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, edited and written for local magazines, managed a youth program for young men and boys at the healthcare center Kokua Kalihi Valley, and supported contemporary art as an artist and community organizer.

Representative Ganaden was educated at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and the University of California at Los Angeles. His father was born in Manila and excelled in business, his mother is Mexican-American and retired after 37 years as a special education public school teacher.